we had harry reid and boehner gave us a boost yesterday. today we sold off and moved back and forth. we've been over the unchanged line several times today. now we're up 51 points. as we're saying we're so closely tethered to the headlines coming out of washington. when we hear about positive and optimism pertaining to the fiscal cliff we'll start to move higher and sell off. as far as what we're seeing on the dow jones industrials, naems like drug stocks and banks stocks. vix index, fear index, is pull off. transports are doing well. we've gotten in some same-store sales. names like koeledz, macy's, gap and target. coles as an example they're citing hurricane sandy for weak november same-store sales. look at kohl's. that is the worst of the bunch. it is down about 10% now. while they, some of them are feeling little optimistic about the black friday and the thanksgiving shopping weekend, they can't deny the fact they did lose money on the eastern seaboard pertaining to hurricane sandy. so we'll start to hear from a lot of retailers. not on